Foot Shaoyin 1-10 Flashcards
KI1 Yong Quan
Rushin Spring
KI1 Location
On the sole of the foot, between the second and third metatarsals, approx. 1/3 the distance on a line drawn from the base of the second toe to the heel of the foot, in a depression formed when the foot is plantar flexed
KI1 Needling
Perpendicular 0.5 - 1 cun
KI1 Associations
Jing Well
Wood Point
Child/Sedation Point
Entry Point
(Trigger Point)
KI1 TCM Actions
Descends excess from the head
Calms the spirit
Revives consciousness and rescues yang
Tonifies Yin, Clears empty heat
KI1 Indications
Revives consciousness: Loss of consciousness
Descend Excess: useful for LV Yang Rising or LV Fire - headaches, tinnitus, hypertension, epilepsy.
Calm Spirit/Shen: agitation, fear, rage, mental health
Tonify KD/HT Yin - insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, poor memory, mania, rage w/desire to kill, hot flashes, night sweats, cardiac inflammation, infertility, impotence
Clears heat: jaundice, constipation, dyspnea with thirst, coughing or vomiting blood
Cooling KD empty heat - chronic sore throat, dry mouth, low back pain, heat in soles of feet
Local/Channel: Lumbar pain, contracted sinews, foot cold and pain, fullness of ribs and chest
KI1 Notes
Tong Ren/Tam Healing System: Used to descend the energy in the body particularly after qi gong exercises, energy healing sessions, etc. Useful for headache, nausea, insomnia, etc.
Important point in Taiji and Qigong for feeling the balance through the feet and where Yin is drawn upwards from the Earth, or Yang is drawn down towards. Zhuangzi, Book 6, The Great and Venerable Teacher, says: “The True Man breathes with his heels; the mass of men breathe with their throats”
This is also one of the points in the 3 Treasures treatment along with Shanzhong Ren-17 and Baihui Du-20. The alchemist Ge Hong used moxa on these points for exorcism of ghosts (“Gui”) with Yongquan Kid-1 especially indicated for nightmares of being subdued
KI1 Neuroanatomy
Superficial Innervation: Medial plantar nerve from L4 - L5
Dermatome Segment: L5
KI1 Trigger Point
Muscle: Adductor hallucis
Myotome Innervation: Lateral plantar nerve, from tibial nerve (L5 - S2)
Location Notes: Travell & Simons (1998) describe four points around Yongquan Kid-1, one slightly distal and three medial to the classical location
Pain Referral Pattern: Around points on ball and medial side of foot
Indications: Diseases of the foot
KI1 TCM Patterns
Liver Yang Rising
Liver Fire
KD Yin Xu
HT Yang Xu
KI1 Nearby Points
Bafeng (EX-LE-10): On the dorsum of the foot between the toes, approx. 0.5 cun proximal to the margin of the web. These points include LV2, ST44, and GB43
KI2 Ran Gu
Blazing Valley
KI2 Location
On the medial side of the foot, in the depression distal to the navicular tuberosity
KI2 Needling
Perpendicular 0.5 - 1 cun
KI2 Associations
Ying Spring
Fire Point
(Meeting of kidney with Yin Qiao Mai)
(Trigger Point)
KI2 TCM Actions
Calms deficiency heat
Regulates kidneys
Regulates lower jiao
KI2 Indications
Calms deficiency heat - chronic sore throats, irritability, night sweats, thirst (Wasting and Thirsting disorder), feet hot/cold
Regulates lower jiao - generally useful for clearing excesses & acute presentations.
Regulates kidney and LJ - Lower abdomen/sex organ/genital issues - Irregular menstruation, infertility, uterine prolapse, seminal emissions, impotence, genital itching and/or pain, difficult urination..
Regulates kidneys - KD related emotional imbalances - fear of being apprehended, fright.
Local point for foot problems - swelling and/or pain, restless feet.
Moxa to tonify KD Yang.
KI2 TCM Patterns
KI Yin Deficiency
KI2 Notes
Important point for empty heat from Yin deficiency.
Ling Shu Ch. 24, On Counterflow Diseases, employs the point combination mentioned in Ch. 6 for the treatment of Heart pain. It advises piercing this point and Taixi Kid-3 when treating a severe piercing pain in the Heart associated with the Spleen. It also advises this point in cases of a Heart pain that feels like being struck, with a bent and painful back, associated with the Kidneys. In this case it is an addition to Jinggu Bl-64 and Kunlun Bl-60 if the patient either becomes mad or if the first two points do not relieve the pain.
KI2 Neuroanatomy
Superficial Innervation: Medial calcaneal branches of tibial nerve (S1 - S2)
Dermatome Segment: L4
KI2 Trigger Point
Muscle: Abductor hallucis
Myotome Innervation: Medial plantar nerve from tibial nerve from sciatic nerve (L4 - S3)
Pain Referral Pattern: All around the metatarso-phalangeal joint of the big toe
Indications: Disease of the metatarso-phalangeal joint of the big toe
KI2 Nearby Points
SP4 - In a depression distal and inferior to the base of the first metatarsal bone at the junction of red and white skin
UB63 - On the lateral side of the foot, directly below the anterior border of the lateral malleolus, on the lower border of the cuboid bone (posterior to the tuberosity of the fifth metatarsal bone)
KI3 Tai Xi
Supreme Stream
KI3 Location
In a depression between the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon, level with the prominence of the medial mallelous